Repairing a Hot Melt Glue Binding in Soft Wrapper Cover // Adventures in Bookbinding

This video demonstrates how to repair a modern soft cover binding where the text has fallen out of the cover and the original adhesive was heat activated glue. The book must otherwise be in good condition. This is a simple repair using a clothes iron to provide the heat to reactivate the original adhesive. The main problem is if the cover has a plastic film on the outside, in which case care must be taken to not melt this coating.

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00:00 Repairing a Hot Melt Glue Binding in Soft Wrapper Cover
00:50 Description of the binding this technique applies to
02:40 Put the iron on and other preparations
04:45 Test the cover plastic coating won't melt
05:50 Reapply original cover with heat
07:35 Usual shameless Patreon plug

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The #DASBookbinding Channel is the perfect starting point for learning #bookbinding. It covers foundation skills, simple projects, technical methods, materials and more advanced bookbinding projects. The videos are presented in a tutorial or lesson fashion, which I hope are easy to follow. The knowledge presented is based on traditional techniques which can be used to create traditional books or as a foundation to quality journalling or creative artists' books. The best way to find what you are looking for is the DAS Bookbinding YouTube Channel guide.
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The music used in this video is performed by Jon Sayles. Jon has some great classical guitar music on his website, which he shares freely.